2 Sep
2006
2 Sep
'06
5:20 p.m.
On Sep 2, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
I guess I should've been more specific on my position. It *should*
be an I/O thing. Doing arithmetic in BCD is not something I'd thought
of...but being inherently tied to decimal, it likely wouldn't be the
best choice for the underlying computational engine for a calculator
which is supposed to support multiple bases.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
Lazy and
inexperienced. The math doesn't need to be re-done in
other
bases. Bases are an input/output representation only...and as such,
Many classic handheld claculators use BCD internally (the HP41
certainly
does, for example). And I know of at least one calcuator program (I
think
for a Palm, but as I don't have the device I can't be sure) that
certainly uses BCD artihmetic.
So 'bases' migth not just be an I/O thing.